Girls is the story of a bunch of 20 something lowlifes living in New York and fucking anything that moves. Since the show is only thirty minutes long these isn’t a lot of room for silly things like character development or motivation. Our mostly struggling lot met someone, have sex with them, and than wonder-hmm, who was that, anyway? when they wake up somewhere strange. These are all unlikeable people doing unlikable things-but that hasn’t stopped Two and Half Men from running for a zillion years. The difference with Girls is that it wants to be the Art House stupid…
Tag: character development
Kiss The Dead
Laurell K. Hamilton has banged out 21 Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books. The fact that her name is ten times larger than Anita’s is proof that the writer has become more important than the story. While this a good thing for the publisher and the author, it’s not always a good thing for the reader. The first half of Kiss The Dead really got my hopes up. We find Anita Blake acting as a US Marshall, chasing down bad guys, talking business with her Cop buddies. She even mentions in passing that she sometimes works as a Reanimator. There’s a…
Larry Crowne-Good Old Fashioned Tom Hanks Film
I watched Larry Crowne because of Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman. I especially liked Biff Henderson’s brief cameo in the restaurant. When we meet Larry Crowne he is a very happy employee at a big box store, a kind of cross between Wal-Mart and Target. He loves his job. He comes into work with a smile on his face as he picks up garbage in the parking lot-and he has been Employee of the Month 8 times. This all ends when a number of higher ups in the company fire him-the reason…